The lake covers 520 acres and has three distinct bays. 'I like to fish,' Pofahl said as to why his boat was still in the water. He said most of the people who live on the lake are snowbirds and are no longer around. Pofahl said he is glad he still had his pontoon boat in the lake so he was able to rescue the hunters. The hunters in this case probably would not have lived if it weren't for the quick action of the lake resident,' the sheriff's office stated in a news release. 'This time of year with the cold water, the body only has minutes until it loses the use of arms and legs. The boat was found in about 15 feet of water. The sheriff's office said one of the dogs swam with the man trying to get to shore and the other one stayed with the two men by the boat. Pofahl said when he was on shore he at first thought the dogs' heads were ducks. Pofahl then went to the other two men and rescued them. 'He was bobbing up and down in the water,' Pofahl said, so he grabbed that man first, pulling him into the pontoon. Scott Goddard of the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office said two of the men stayed with the boat-hanging onto the capsized boat and a gas can-and a third person tried to swim to shore with his waders on. He realized once he was out on the lake it was more than just one man. He grabbed the keys to his pontoon and went as fast as he could to reach the man.

He looked again and saw a man waving his gun in the air. At first he thought it was a bog floating around. He looked outside to view the lake and saw something. Pufahl was minding his own business, drinking coffee just after 8 a.m.

12, he would be called a hero.Д«ut that is exactly what the Garrison man is-a hero-after rescuing three hunters and their black and yellow Labradors after their hunting boat capsized on Camp Lake, a lake southwest of Garrison in Crow Wing County in east-central Minnesota. Pufahl know when he woke up the morning of Friday, Oct. GARRISON, Minn.-Little did 71-year-old John J.

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